HANA Express in Google Cloud Platform - google-cloud-platform

Is HANA Express still available in GCP ? Earlier I used it and can still see $165 and 155 days left in free trial. But then when I am trying to search HANA from "Deploy Prebuilt application" I am not getting any hit .
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I am also noticing this behavior recently, when I contacted the SAP, they said there is an issue going on currently with the HXE installation available, it will be fixed soon.

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PgRouting in GCP Cloud SQL

Is there any good reason why the pgrouting extension is still not supported by GCP Cloud SQL? I mean, Cloud SQL even supports PostGIS 2.3 version.
Also, considering I already have PostGIS 2.3 installed on Cloud SQL, is there any way I could install pgrouting manually without issuing the CREATE EXTENSION statement?
Thanks in advance.
As far as I'm aware, there's no way you can install pgRouting manually without using the CREATE EXTENSION statement, and as you already know, it's currently not supported unfortunately.
However, I was able to find a public feature request open here for pgRouting to be supported by PostgreSQL (in CloudSQL). You could comment and follow updates there on the potential support for it in future.
As of the 26th of August, pgRouting is now supported in Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL.

Tracing Openstack Mitaka

I'm trying to trace services in Openstack Mitaka using osprofiler, but i'm having some issues. It seems it's not possible to trace nova service in Mitaka using osprofiler (correct me if i'm wrong). So i was thinking of using Zipkin.
Can anyone tell me if Zipkin integrates with openstack mitaka?
OpenStack does not have Zipkin as an inbuilt tracer. Hence OSProfiler was adopted as a standard project for tracing in OpenStack.
As far as i can see from the documentation, Nova should have OSProfiler support for Mitaka. Although i have not used OSProfiler with Mitaka, I have worked with OSProfiler with Newton and subsequent releases.
You can post the issue that you are facing so that it will be easier to debug.

On Visual Studio load, AWS Toolkit posts get instance metadata and gets timeout (502). How do I disable that?

When I have the AWS Toolkit installed, it takes a long time for Visual Studio (2015 update 2) to open.
Why? Because (as I saw using Fiddler) it's posting to 169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document like 9 times, and timing out every time.
I found this article which explains what that's all about.
But how do I turn it off? I really don't want to wait for so long for Visual Studio to load every time I open it.
The underlying SDK that the toolkit uses had a bug, fixed last week, where it was attempting to always fetch instance metadata to try and determine the AWS region (even when not running on an EC2 instance). I don't recall the version of the toolkit being built on that SDK version but it's possible.
A colleague posted an updated toolkit (1.9.6.21) this evening for an unrelated change - can you install this and see if you still see an issue? If so I'll take a look when I get into the office.

C++ in the cloud. Casablanca REST Service on Microsoft Azure

Hello fellow Azure users. I have created quite an extensive C++ REST service using the CasaBlanca REST SDK. When I began working on this project I as lead to believe that I could run it in the Cloud (Azure) . Please explain how best I can get this service to run on Microsoft Azure. I can't afford to re-program the entire project in another language like C# or Java. Thanks in advance!
If you're wondering why I believed CasaBlanca was meant for the Cloud:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Australia/2012/AZR331
-Seth
Looking at the TechEd video I can see that they are using the SpeechService demo which you can find the source of here: https://hg.codeplex.com/microsoftcasablanca so you can understand how they performed the deployment to Azure.
Looking at the code I can see the solution is designed to be deployed to a Cloud Service Worker Role and includes a "Cloud Service" project in the Visual Studio solution - this is the project type which gives the "Deploy To Cloud" option which you see in the video.
Given that the demo is from 2012 there will have been many Azure SDK releases since then so the demo code may require an update, but the deployment method from Visual Studio 2012 and 2013 remains essentially unchanged.
Regardless how you're using casablanca, c++ applications can be run on Virtual Machines, web/worker role (stateless) VMs in cloud services, probably websites... Choosing between these is a matter of opinion (or at least dependent on the app you're building), and there's no single right answer.

Is there documentation available for Google Cloud Dataflow?

Google Cloud Dataflow has been released in June 2014 (more information in this blog post), but I can't find any technical documentation on the developers section of the cloud.google.com website: https://cloud.google.com/developers/
Does someone knows where I can find more information, technical documentation about this product?
I'm really interested about how works topology, is it static or dynamic?.. etc..
Google Cloud Dataflow is now in Alpha stage. The documentation is now publicly available here: https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/. Follow the documentation link.
Please note that in Alpha - access to the managed service is limited to invite only. You can request access via the link above. Use the "Apply for Alpha" button.
The Cloud Dataflow SDK for Java has also been made public & open sourced on GitHub here: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/DataflowJavaSDK. Please note that you can download the SDK and run your Dataflow programs locally without having to execute them on the managed service. Local pipeline execution is a great way to get a feel for the programming model, but understand that the local execution is not parallelized.
We are also moving support over to StackOverflow. Please use the tag: google-cloud-dataflow.
Cheers - Eric
Google Cloud Dataflow is currently in private beta. You can apply here. Documentation is provided upon approval.